Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) · Michigan

Great Lakes Tissue Company

Cheboygan, MI · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Tissue Company runs at 486% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Lakes Tissue Company: 16.0 TCR = 486% of Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Tissue Company safety composite

Great Lakes Tissue Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2020→2021

Great Lakes Tissue Company injury rate improved

Great Lakes Tissue Company's TCR fell 1.1 from 16.6 in 2020 to 15.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=16.6 · 2021=15.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Cheboygan, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.0 · 486% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Polyfiber
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polyfiber (1.3 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Tissue Company in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Tissue Company averages 16.0 TCR (486% of the Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Great Lakes Tissue Company TCR series: 2020=16.6 · 2021=15.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Tissue Company falls in its industry

317 Pulp mills producing paper (ex establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Pulp mills producing paper (ex employers in Michigan.

Great Lakes Tissue Company (100 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Tissue Company
Great Lakes Tissue Company (100 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Great Lakes Tissue Company has fewer employees than the Pulp mills producing paper (except groun median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 15.5 6.6 13 1 0
2020 16.6 4.4 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · MI · Cheboygan

317 Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 18 employers in Cheboygan, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Polyfiber 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MillTown - Neenah WI 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Holly Springs Specialty Paper, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Erving Industries, Inc. 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jay Dee Contractors, Inc. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solomon Plumbing Co 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE FiberClass Insulation 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eden Foods Headquarters 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2100 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Northern - VitalCare Inc 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2100 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thunder Bay Community Health Service, Inc CSB 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Chase City Health & Rehab Center 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brown 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 8 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR A.W. Hastings & Co., LLC - Distibution Center 16.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SSA Program Integrity 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laird Superfood Inc 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Customized - CA - 0807 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thompson Concrete Construction Ltd. 100 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.